Ensure 2024 elections are free and fair – National House of Chiefs to EC

The National House of Chiefs has admonished the Electoral Commission to ensure a free and fair process in the 2024 polls.

According to the National House of Chiefs, failure to have free and fair elections in the 2024 polls may affect the peace of the nation therefore, there is a need to ensure the election is transparent.

President of the National House of Chiefs, Ogyeahoho Yaw Gyebi II, addressing a meeting in Kumasi advised the EC to ensure a violence-free election in the coming year.

“The EC, political parties, media, election observers, and electorates should focus on free and fair elections and our campaigns should be based on issues. Campaigning should be decent and should be focused on issues not insults or attacks on opponents.

“The EC working with all stakeholders should continue to promote the atmosphere for free, fair and peaceful elections so that losers will accept their loss in good faith. Electoral violence is expensive and should be avoided at all costs. We have only one country. That is Ghana,” he stressed.

Similarly, the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), Rt Rev. Dr Abraham Nana Opare-Kwakye has also urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to conduct the 2024 general election in a free and fair manner.

This, he said, would help sustain the peace and democracy of the country.

Addressing the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Kwahu Presbytery of the church at Abetifi in the Kwahu East District in the Eastern Region last Saturday (December 16), the Moderator said it was important for the EC to deliver clean electoral results so that everybody, especially political leaders, would be satisfied and would not resort to any actions that could disturb the peace of the country.